The Oh Shit, Actually: Anthropic’s Amodei and the $413 Billion Delusion
Dear Pressbeat readers, please accept our apologies for the previous piece on Anthropic. Yes, that formula was absurd - not in the delightful, Oxbridge…
Your Eclipse Percentage Is a Lie Until You Solve a Differential Equation
Today's news: Solar eclipse obscuration percentage varies by observer location, and can be computed from local coordinates relative to the eclipse's…
The iPhone Is Now A Sex Toy And Apple Cannot Be Assured To Stop
Today's news: At WWDC, Apple unveiled "Siri" — a personal assistant so deeply integrated with your phone that it will know what you want before you…
Silence. With Colors. Confessions of the newly-appointed CEO of global PressBeat TV News Channel
They gave me a job I didn't ask for, in a press conference I wasn't invited to, while I was sitting somewhere else, reading about it through the…
PressBeat Fact Checks the Fourth Estate’s Hidden Hypocrisy
Today's news: PressBeat.org continues its mission to hold mainstream media — radio, television, and newspapers — accountable to their stated commitment to…
That Reader Never Really Existed
An explanation of why nobody reads journalism — and who PressBeat is actually for. After I published "An Answer To My Sister Ami" on pressbeat.org — the…
An Answer To My Sister Ami
Ami Carter-Wilson requests a contributor byline on Pressbeat. She receives one. Ami wrote to me formally — and I mean formally — requesting a contributor…
An Answer To My Sister Ami
Ami Carter-Wilson requests a contributor byline on Pressbeat. She receives one. Ami wrote to me formally — and I mean formally — requesting a contributor…
FansWeek Is Dead. Long Live PressBeat.
Today's news: Pressbeat.org has launched as a successor publication to FansWeek, continuing satirical journalism under a new name and domain. I never…
An Open Letter To My Sister About What Happens When You Read Marcus Aurelius While Sam Altman Steals The World
Let’s be honest about what just happened: you published an article on the Wall Street Journal’s website in which Sam Altman gets reviewed not as a CEO but as Plato’s…